Category: Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. (AAPL) CEO, Tim Cook will speak at the Goldman Sach’s (GS) Technology and Internet Conference tomorrow at 12:30 PM Pacific Time.  The Apple Investor Relations page has a direct link for the audio portion of the speech.  Tim will be among a host of CEO’s and IT industry companies speaking at the conference about the future and direction of their companies. Many people are expecting he will be announcing the upcoming Apple iPad 3 event but his focus…

Apple Inc (AAPL) shares pushed through the $500 USD per share price mark early in trading today.  While the up tick did not last, it was a major mile stone for the stock which is projected to go to at least $550 to $580 USD per share range by a number of analysts on wall street.  The stock traded most of the morning in the $498 and $499 USD per share range after pulling back from the $500 mark.   After…

Apple Japan is trying to get the students on board as they get ready to start school in April.  Japan is one of the few countries where the students start school in April instead of September.   From 14 February until 22 May, students and educators can get a Mac App Store card with the purchase of a machine.  The card with a face value of ¥10,000 JPY is in addition to the normal academic discount.  According to Apple’s website, it…

Apple Inc (AAPL) has jumped to a sky high price of $499.20 USD per share in pre-market trading this morning.   While many analysts posted expected price per share of $550-$580 USD per share after profits were announced, the price was a bit slow in getting there until last week.  The stock had been trading in the $455-460 range the week before and then suddenly jumped to a high of $497.62 befor closing on Friday at $493.42 USD per share.  

Paula Routly recently interviewed early Apple Inc. employee Jerry Mancock.  Jerry was Apple Computer Inc. Employee 6 or 7, depending on who you ask and he gave a very detailed overview of early life at Apple,  about working on the Apple ][, Disk ][ and eventually the Macintosh, as well as working with Steve Jobs.   The original creator of the Apple ][ case was originally very skeptical of Steve Jobs and asked for payment up front.  He didn’t get it…

Have you ever wondered what Apple had in mind when it was designing new Apple IIgs machines back in the 1980’s?  Lim Thye Chen gives us a brief glimpse into some of those designs of prototypical Apple machines with a few pictures from the original Apple Design book at: http://retromaccast.ning.com/photo/photo/listForContributor?screenName=rxq26qsiiir9 While this is not the first time we have seen such wild ideas of Apple products, it is the first time we have seen a mythical Apple IIsi or a…

Apple Inc (AAPL) shares have been on a record tear over the past three trading days with the price currently trading at $472.65 USD per share or up $3.71 USD per share at Noon EST.  After pushing through the $474.00 USD per share price just after 10am, the price has pulled back.  The high of the day thus far was $474.21 per share.

Apple rode a wave of enthusiasm on its Friday close at an all time high  of $459.68 USD at a rise of $4.56 USD or 1.00 percent.  That Friday enthusiasm seems to be replaced with some serious pessimism this morning as the pre-market price is already off by $1.77 at 8:59am. With no major news over the weekend out side of Apple once again selling 3G products in Germany, there is nothing really weighing on the stock outside of a…

Jumsoft has released Book Palette, a package which adds 10 book templates to iBooks Author.  The package also allows you to change and modify the templates to give the effects that you need in your books.  It also allows you to save your modified templates, thus making it easier to create your documents with uniformity across all the documents. This package is an absolute necessity for the user who is creating lots of materials and feels that Apple’s lot of…

Apple has updated iBooks Author, updating the End User License Agreement, getting even more specific about what can or cannot be sold when producing content with the application.  In the original EULA, Apple had said that “If you charge a fee for any book or other work you generate using this software (a ‘Work’), you may only sell or distribute such Work through Apple (e.g., through the iBookstore) and such distribution will be subject to a separate agreement with Apple.”…

Apple has released an update for iBooks 2.  The update, version 2.0.1 is intended to address an issue with Textbooks not opening within the program.   The update is now in the iTunes App Store and is a free download.   To download the update, go to: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/ibooks/id364709193?mt=8

Apple Inc (AAPL) is trading up this morning with a jump of $2.23 per share in pre-Market trading.  With the .5% boost in the stock price, it is nearing the level it was at earlier in the week.  At 9:00 am, the stock stands at $437.35 USD per share and should stay relatively close to if it is a normal Friday, volume wise. The only news weighing on the stock this morning is the loss in German courts to Motorola. …

Apple Inc (AAPL) traded slightly lower yesterday, closing $1.07 down for the day at $455.12 per share.  In after hours trading, the shares slipped a bit further down to the 454.87 USD per share level.  This as Apple filed its SEC reports on 16 senior employees who were given 63 Shares of Apple stock each at a price of $337.2375 on the 31st of January according to SEC filings.  These filings included Senior VP Jeffrey Williams and Apple Inc. Chief…

Reports are saying that that Apple has now landed the number three telecom company in China to distribute the iPhone.  China Telecom (CHA) was the latest of the mainland China based carriers to announce that they will have a iPhone 4S for sale as soon as February. On 13 January when apple Incorporated released the iPhone 4S in mainland China most areas went according to plan. However, the main Apple store in Beijing was dated by scalpers trying to scoop…

Everyone one knows that Steve Jobs had several industries that he wanted to revamp and change for the better.  Education was one of those industries.  Apple made huge headway into fulfilling Steve Jobs’ dream on 19 January with the introduction of iBooks 2.0, Ibooks Author, iTunes U and of course, the text books section of the iTunes Book Store. Now it appears, that the US government is also getting on the band wagon with some announcements of their own.  The…

Apple Inc (AAPL) is off slightly this morning with the stock moving towards the $456.50 USD per share mark, down from the nearly $457.00 per share marked in last nights after market session.  News that Softbank’s net profits fell by 50% third quarter could be weighing on the stock this morning.  Softbank is Apple’s primary Japanese partner in the iPhone and iPad. Also there is news that German courts refused to ban two Samsung products yesterday, handing Apple one of…

A report on the Boy Genius Reports website this morning is showing photos of a purported screenshot from code showing Apple’s next generation iPad.   According to the report, the iPad 3 will contain Apple’s A6 Chip and will also be quad core.   The new iPad will also be compatible with GSM, CDMA, and LTE networks of all major phone carriers.   This would likely include the latest 4G networks as well. Source: BGR

Mac お宝(otakara) is now saying that there are two events scheduled by Apple.  The first event which they were saying was for Apple’s iPad 3 announcement apparently has been pushed back to March.  The first event supposedly in February is yet unknown.  Mac お宝 is saying that the event would be “a Strange Event”.   Speculation by some of the posters on the site and others says that the February event might be scheduled to coincide with Steve Jobs birthday which…

Apple Inc, has released the long awaited Mac OS X 10.7.3 Update.  The seventh developers seed was released last week with 11D50.  That particular seed was figured to be fairly close to release of the product and today, Apple fulfilled that assumption with the release of the formal update. This update , while addressing a number of Microsoft related items including Windows file sharing and MS Word printing issues, the update also focuses on the networking aspects of the operating…

Apple lost a decision last month in Shenzhen Province Court regarding the iPad naming rights in mainland China.  The original filer of the name, Proview, apparently still owns the legal rights to the name iPad, in spite of their Taiwan subsidiary having sold the name to a British company, IP Applications.  Apple purchased the name from IP Applications in 2010, however, according to Proview, they never transferred the name or the rights to the name. Apple lost a judgement in…